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The Making of the American landscape

Title
The Making of the American landscape / edited by Michael P. Conzen.
Publication
Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1990.

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Additional Authors
Conzen, Michael P.
Description
xvi, 433 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
Summary
In this book the nature and evolution of the cultural landscape of North America are analyzed. A team of geographers, historians, archaeologists and others submit chapters covering its ethnic, ecological, economic, aesthetic and political dimensions of the landscape.
Subject
  • Human geography > North America
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on > North America
  • Landscape changes > North America
  • Human geography
  • Landscape changes
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Geografie
  • Kulturlandschaftswandel
  • Landschaft
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Cultuurlandschappen
  • North America
  • Nordamerika
  • USA
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography (p. 396-423).
Contents
  • Nature's continent / Stanely W. Trimble -- The Indian legacy in the American landscape / Karl W. Butzer -- Spanish legacy in the borderlands / David Hornbeck -- French landscapes in North America / Cole Harris -- The Northeast and the making of American geographical habits / Peirce F. Lewis -- Plantations and the moulding of the southern landscape / Sam B. Hilliard -- Toward a national landscape / Hildegard Binder Johnson -- The clearing of the forests / Michael Williams -- Settlement of the American grassland / John C. Hudson -- Challenging the desert / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- Democratic utopia and the American landscape / James E. Vance, Jr. -- Ethnicity on the land / Michael P. Conzen -- The new industrial order / David R. Meyer -- The Americanization of the city / Edward K. Muller.
  • Landscapes redesigned for the automobile / John A. Jakle -- The imprint of central authority / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Landscapes of private power and wealth / William K. Wyckoff -- The house in the vernacular landscape / John Brinckerhoff Jackson -- Afterword / Michael P. Conzen.
ISBN
  • 0049170090
  • 9780049170094
  • 0049170104
  • 9780049170100
  • 0415911788
  • 9780415911788
LCCN
89020047
OCLC
  • ocm20318208
  • 20318208
  • SCSB-1747490
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library